life in himself as his own. God wills that he should do so, that man
may live as of himself according to the laws of order, which are as
many as there are precepts in the Word, and may dispose himself to
receive the love of God. But still God perpetually holds with His
finger the perpendicular above the scales, and regulates, but never
violates by compulsion, man's free decision. Man's free will is from
this: that he feels life in himself as his, and God leaves him so to
feel, that reciprocal conjunction may take place between Him and man.

--_True Christian Religion, n._ 504


"ABIDE IN ME"

Man is so created that he can be more and more closely united to the
Lord. He is so united not by knowledge alone, nor by intelligence
alone, nor even by wisdom alone, but by a life in accordance with
these. The more closely he is united to the Lord, the wiser and
happier he becomes, the more distinctly he seems to himself to be his
own, and the more clearly he perceives that he is the Lord's.

--_Divine Providence, nn._ 32 _et al._


TWO MINDS: TWO WORLDS

Man is so created as to live simultaneously in the natural world and
in the spiritual world. Thus he has an internal and an external nature
or mind; by the former living in the spiritual world, by the latter in
the natural world.